Cultural references[]
- In The Android's Dungeon is a statue of Krusty frozen in carbonite from Star Wars.
- There is a billboard for a movie titled McBain Capital, referencing the investment firm Bain Capital.
- The Aztec Theater in the Fortnite map, has parodies of actual movies. One, hidden in the projector room, is a clear parody of Avengers: Infinity Wars. The fact is, Disney owns The Simpsons, as hinted in May the 12th Be with You and a trailer of The Simpsons announcement of them being added to Disney+.
- The Chapter Finale: ZERO HOUR trailer and live event was in a similar style to Avengers: End Game.
Trivia[]
- In the days prior to the Simpsons-themed mini-season, Kang and Kodos were seen flying in a spaceship observing the Battle Bus at the start of matches.
- All Duff Beer branding is replaced with Slurp, including the Duff Brewery becoming the Springfield Slurpworks and Duffman becoming Slurpman. Slurp is a healing item in Fortnite. Despite Slurp being in boxes at certain locations, the XP pop-up still counts them as a Slurp Barrel. Everything within Slurp uses the Duff Beer font.
- A copy of Radioactive Man Meets The Kansas City Royals is on the wall of The Android's Dungeon, but it's renamed to Radioactive Man Meets the Team.
- A copy of The Reformers is in The Android's Dungeon, but it's renamed to Robots.
- The giant donut held by Lard Lad at Lard Lad Donuts can be shot down from the statue.
- The head of the Statue of Jebediah Springfield can be shot off and worn by the player. Referred to in-game as Jebediah's Protective Helm, it will protect the player from a single headshot but will fly off the player's head once shot. There is a short delay before it can be picked up again.
- Some of the houses have head magnets of four Fortnite characters on the refrigerators.
- The Simpsons has an actual parody of Fortnite called Halfmonth in the series.
- One of the consumables is the Krusty Burger. Some locations have them on trays of 8 with the highlight references Steamed Hams from the short, "22 Short Films About Springfield." If you go to Seymour Skinner's house, the oven steams.
- At Moe's Tavern, you can answer the phone to getting actual Bart prank calls. One of the in-game quests is to answer said phone.
- Homer can be seen as a titan in the Zero Hour live event alongside Godzilla, Kong, Superman, and Dino Megazord, where he is seen with a large donut fighting the Dark Presence.
- During one of the shorts in-game, Homer burps, causing Peely skin to fly off and cover himself. A cartoon gag to whom, in this case, Peely doesn't wear clothes, and the peel he had on was the only clothing.
- Any boss you defeated during this event would have Nelson Muntz "Ha ha" spawn in.